I’m not sure if we needed to do a weekly summary for these two weeks because we only had one post to do. But, I figured I’d do one anyways, just to be safe. These past two weeks we did our final project, where we select a character and build …

Many people may know who Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is, but only a few know the true legend behind The Rock. The epic history of an unstoppable force. If you do not know who The Rock is, here is what he looks like today:

Now, this story starts back in …

Gooooooodness gracious, I can’t believe that we’re this far into the semester. Only two weeks left til the semester and ds106 is over. It’s been a fun ride that’s for sure. But, this week was based around remix and mashup assignments. This week consisted of many different assignments, using many …

What is a remix? What about a mashup? Those are two very good questions that have a wide variety of different definitions and such. According to dictionary.com, the definition of remix is:

remix – to mix and re-record the elements of (a musical recording) in a different way.

and …

The next assignment I created and completed was the writing assignment, Short Story With Random Words and Animal(s). The goal of this assignment is to utilize 10 random words, and a random animal of your choice to develop a short story or poem. It could be about anything, it …

So this post is dedicated to my creating of a video assignment and completing of that video assignment. The video assignment I created Create A Lyric Video. The goal of this is to take a song and create a video displaying the lyrics for it. That may sound easy …

This post is dedicated to my experience with the remix assignment using Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker. The goal in this assignment was to take a video that was pre-created and remix it, adding images, video, and audio to it. I really liked how this was set up. It was set …

This post is a detailed tutorial of how to complete the assignment Mash-Up Trailers within the Video Assignments bank. This tutorial will be heavily based around the use of iMovie, which should definitely help the Mac users out there. This tutorial will also use my previous completion of this …

The next I assignment I completed was Movie Mashup. The goal of this assignment was to create a movie poster based upon a mashup between two movies. This assignment was pretty difficult for me considering photo editing is one of my weak points. To start, I had to think …

The next assignment that I completed was One Movie Watches Another. The idea within this assignment was to create a video where essentially a character from one movie, watches a scene from another movie. To complete this, I had to think of a scene where a character watches a …

The next assignment that I decided to do was Remix An Album Cover. The goal behind this assignment is to take a classic album cover and remix something within it. Whether it be the title, image, or aesthetics of the cover. To do this, I had to first decide …

This post is dedicated to my completion of the mashup assignment The Contest Nobody Could Win (Video-Mashup Edition). The idea of this assignment was to take 2 second or less clips and compile them into a video of clips from your favorite movies. The video should be short, around …

This post is dedicated to my completion of the Mashup Assignment Inappropriate Laughter. The idea of this assignment is to take a serious scene from a movie or tv show, and add “inappropriate” or “untimely” laughter to it. To do this I had to do a few different things …

This post is dedicated to my daily create for today (11/25) Caption an Unsplash Photo. The goal is to take a Unsplash photo and caption it with some ds106 words of wisdom. To accomplish this, I simply downloaded a photo from unsplash, found a quote that related to the …

This is my post dedicated to remixing a ds106 assignment. To do this, we used the remix generator. The remix generator essentially gives you a random assignment from the ds106 assignment bank, and gives you a remix card that lists the type of changes you need to make. The random …

These past two weeks have been based around video assignments. We had a wide array of video assignments to accomplish over the past two weeks. Along with this we also had a group of daily creates to accomplish this week. If you would like to take a look at my …

The last video assignment I have completed for the week is Have A Conversation With Yourself! The goal of this assignment is to make a video where it appears you are having a conversation with yourself. To do this assignment, I need to film my videos that would include the …

So the daily create for today (11/16) is Pick A Pet And Change It. The goal of this was essentially to take a picture of your pet and add something to change its face. So, for this I chose to use my dog lobo. I took a picture of …

So this post is dedicated to the daily creates from the past two days. I had completed them over the past two days and completely forgot to post them in a blog so here they are. The first is from Friday (11/14) Don’t Get Mad, Get DS106! and from Saturday …

The next video assignment that I chose to complete was Return To The Silent Era. The goal of this assignment was to take a scene from a modern day movie and turn it into a silent movie style video. To start for this assignment, I needed to chose the …

The next assignment I did this week was Movies by Numbers. The goal of this assignment is to represent a number using artistic representations and music that is related to the topic. Now to start off I needed to chose a number. The number I landed on was 8…

The next video assignment that I decided to do was Animal Dance Off. The goal of this assignment was to take video of an animal(s) dancing and put it to music to make it look like the animal is actually moving to the beat of the song. To start on …

So the assignment that this post is dedicated to is the Sports Team Pump-Up Video assignment. The goal of this assignment is to essentially create a pump-up video for a sports team of our choice. A couple weeks ago we were assigned to do some pre-production for a couple of …

The daily create for today (11/11), What’s Your Flag?, was to create a flag for your country, if you were to have one. For my flag, I chose to mix the American Flag and some of my favorite things. Those are, Burgers, Weights (dumbbells), and Protein Shakes, which is …

Alright, so for my first Visual Assignment of the week, I decided to do the assignment Mash-Up Trailers. I chose this assignment, because I think it is a very cool thing to do, that requires a lot of creativity. Now, the hardest part for me in this assignment was …

Damnnnnnnnnnnnn, I can’t believe the 10th week of the semester is already over. Senior year’s flyin by. But this week and the next few weeks are going to be focused on video assignments. The majority of this week was learning about video and film, and preparing our knowledge and tools …

Our daily create for today (11/2) was Share Your Best Sleepy Shot. So here’s the photo I uploaded:

This is my dog Lobo passed out in my family’s living room (I wish I was doing the same).

Til next time everyone! Gotta knock out the weekly summary then catch …

 

The movie Any Given Sunday was released in 1999 and was directed by Oliver Stone. Stone has directed many other movies including Savages, Wall Street, and Platoon. For those of you who have never seen Any Given Sunday, it stars Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid, …

The goal for this assignment was to take a scene from a movie and analyze it in 3 different steps.

Analyze the camera work Analyze the audio track Analyze it as a whole

The clip I chose, is from the movie Any Given Sunday. And for those of you …

One of our assignments this week, was to take a look at the Example of YouTube Genres Google Doc and review the genres & examples, and add any that feel fitting. Overall, I really liked this list, I thought it took a very different approach about general genres. For example, …